Background
- Holds up to 286 prisoners
- Part of the Northern Prison Region
- Sits on a 47-hectare site in Wiri, Manukau City.
- Opened in June 2006.
- Second of four new facilities completed under the Corrections Regional Prisons Development Project (RPDP).
- Built to accommodate a growing number of female prisoners and service the upper North Island.
- First purpose-built women's prison in New Zealand
Construction
- Building began in 2004. Facility completed on time and within budget in 2006.
Design
- Designed to help Corrections fulfil its aims of reducing re-offending and protecting the public.
- Provides prisoners with as normal an environment as is possible in a prison, challenging them to improve their behaviour, encouraging self-responsibility, and positively influencing prisoner behaviour in preparation for release into the community.
Employment
- Employs up to 115 prisoners at any one time in textiles, catering, laundry, ground maintenance, and release to work programmes.
Special Units
- Self Care Units - can accommodate 32 prisoners nearing release, in self-care units designed to teach prisoners independent living skills while sharing responsibility for their living arrangements with a small group of peers in a flatting-type situation. Some prisoners with babies may be eligible to live in the Self Care Unit (see Mothers and Babies Options Fact Sheet).
Reintegration Initiatives
- Regional Reintegration Teams were established in 2006 to provide prisoners with specialist support to help prepare them for their release into the community. The teams, consisting of Reintegration Caseworkers, Social Workers and Whanau Liaison Workers, work collaboratively with Case Officers and other Corrections' staff to address prisoners' social, living, and reintegrative needs. Reintegration Teams are based in the five Prison Regions - South Island, Wellington, Midland, Waikato/ Central and Northern.
General Information
- Manager: Jeanette Burns
- Location: 20 Hautu Drive, Wiri, 10 minutes drive south of Auckland Airport.
- For visiting times please call Auckland Region Women's Corrections Facility.
Auckland Region Women's Corrections Facility
Private Bag 76908
Wiri
Manukau City
Telephone (09) 250 9400
Fax (09) 250 9407
